David Carter (medicine)

The following is Sir David Carter's biography from the website of the MMC Inquiry (an independent review of Modernising Medical Careers):

Sir David Carter is a graduate of St Andrews University and holds an MD from the University of Dundee. He is currently Chairman of The Health Foundation and of the Board for Academic Medicine (Scotland). He is a Trustee and Vice Chairman of Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) and chairs the Council Research Strategy Group. He was Vice Principal of Edinburgh University from 2000 – 2002 following his time as Chief Medical Officer in Scotland (1996-2000) and a surgical career during which he was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh (1988-1996) and St Mungo Professor of Surgery in Glasgow (1979-1988). He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Faculty of Public Health Medicine. His surgical interests centred on hepato-biliary and pancreatic disease. He was Surgeon to Her Majesty The Queen from 1993-1997. He has been President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (1996-97), Surgical Research Society (1996-97), and British Medical Association (2001-2). He was Chairman of the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (1990-96) and a non-executive Director of Lothian Health Board (1994-96). As Chairman of the Board for Academic Medicine he was aware of developments in MMC particularly in relation to Scotland.

Affiliations

• Formerly on the advisory council of Sense About Science (membership current as at 1 Feb 2005)